Overview
- Police say the alleged victim went to Southern New Hampshire Medical Center on Oct. 4 to report the incident after a dorm party and detectives from Nashua’s special investigations division opened the probe.
- Twenty-year-old Michael Singleton was arrested in Nashua, arraigned on an aggravated felonious sexual assault charge, pleaded not guilty and is being held on preventative detention pending a probable-cause hearing on Oct. 15.
- Court papers summarize the victim’s account that she was highly intoxicated, remembered verbally saying no, and could not fully recall the encounter that police say took place in a dorm-suite bathroom tied to the men’s basketball team.
- Investigators have collected witness statements that allege Singleton showed videos to others to argue the encounter was consensual and that he denied wrongdoing to suitemates; police are asking anyone with information to call the department’s crime line.
- Rivier University says it is cooperating with law enforcement and moving forward with federally required Title IX procedures, and the case has prompted campus outreach to offer counseling, housing and other support services to students.